ColdFusion on Wheels Blog

Submit Your cfwheels.org Feedback on UserVoice

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:57:00 -0800

A couple weeks ago, we launched a UserVoice forum for feedback about the Wheels website itself. To submit feedback about our website, simply go to the website and click on the red Feedback tab along the left side of the screen. You can also vote for other features and improvements that others have suggested.

And hey, we've actually implemented our first idea generated from your feedback! Our first UserVoice request was implemented last week: the site-wide search engine for cfwheels.org. Now you can search through the entire website for any content or documentation that you may be looking for. We'll be reviewing data that the search engine collects to improve your experience even more.

It's been pretty clear all along that feedback about the Wheels framework itself should go in our issue tracker, but requests for the website were starting to get mixed in with that. Now the two trackers are separate but equal.

Have an idea for our website? Go ahead and submit your idea now.

Wheels LitePost Learning Contest screencasts

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:11:00 -0800

Here are two 5 minute screencasts to help you get started for the Wheels Litepost Learning Contest.

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Andy Bellenie Joins the Core Team

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:20:00 -0800

The core team has been impressed with the work that Andy Bellenie has been contributing to the core and community for quite some time. So we extended an invitation for him to be the a part of the team, and he said yes.

Andy is very talented and definitely has opinions about the "right way" of doing things. In fact, we couldn't see why he shouldn't be a part of the team.

Please join us in congratulating Andy. We're glad to have you on board officially!

Wheels LitePost Contest - Win Amazon Gift Card

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:14:00 -0800

ColdFusion On Wheels is announcing a contest to create an example of LitePost using Wheels

The LitePost project is hosted here. It is a simple blogging application to compare different ColdFusion frameworks. A sql script for the tables and other framework examples are available.

Goal

Fun exercise to learn Wheels for newbies and chance to win an Amazon Gift card.

Prize

Grand Prize (one): ~~$50~~ $100 Amazon Gift card

Runner Up Prizes (two): ~~$25~~ $50 Amazon Gift card

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CFMeetup - Intro into Wheels ORM Thurs Jan 21 6pm EST

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:14:00 -0800

What: "Intro into Wheels Object Relational Mapping (ORM)", with Mike Henke WHEN: Thurs. Jan 21, 6:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-5) MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/ DURATION: Approx. 1 hour Meeting will be recorded. URL will be posted after meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com ABOUT THIS SESSION: Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday Jan 21 will be "Intro into Wheels Object Relational Mapping (ORM)", with Mike Henke. (For an introduction to CFWheels, see the recording of the talk earlier this month by Chris Peters. More at http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/12231118/.) TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) An overview of Object Relational Mapping (ORM) and how is it used in Wheels. Learn how ORM simplifies your database interaction code. Mapping objects in your application to records in your database tables is a key concept in Wheels. We will take a look at exactly how this mapping is performed.

Upcoming (and previous) Wheels Presentations

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:32:00 -0800

Thanks to the ColdFusion Community for supporting Wheels. Hat-tips to upcoming ColdFusion Conferences cf.Objective() and CFUnited for accepting and expressing interest in Wheels sessions. Individual thanks to Sean Corfield for asking people to submit Wheels topics to CFUnited and Charlie Arehart for hosting Wheels topics on the Online ColdFusion Meetup. Finally, thanks to CFHour() for scheduling Chris Peters to talk on an upcoming show about Wheels. [More]

CFMeetup Presentation this Thursday

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:50:00 -0800

Come hear me present on the basics of ColdFusion on Wheels on ColdFusion Meetup this Thursday. The presentation is Thursday, January 7, 2010, at 6:00 pm Eastern Time.

I just sent this description over to Charlie Arehart:

Chris Peters demonstrates how to build a simple CRUD (create, read, update, delete) application using the ColdFusion on Wheels framework. By the end of the hour, you'll have a solid understanding of what it's like to build applications rapidly with Wheels. Surely, you'll be ready to give the framework a look on your own time!

This is recommended for novice users, those of you who haven't had the chance to try out Wheels, disenfranchised framework users, or anyone else who wants to come heckle me in the Acrobat Connect chatroom. :)

Wheels Added to CFML Framework Generator for Eclipse

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:55:00 -0800

Robert Burns was pretty quick at adding Wheels to his CFML Framework Skeletons plugin for Eclipse after we released version 1.0.

After installing the plugin in CFEclipse or ColdFusion Builder, you can start a new Wheels project in a wizard that appears after going to File > New > Project.... It will load up all the framework files that you need automatically.

To install, add http://www.robertburns.me/update/ to your update sites in Eclipse.

The framework generator also supports code for ColdBox, FuseBox, FW/1, LightFront, Mach-II, and Model-Glue.

Wheels Round Up for 2009/12/11

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:20:00 -0800

Thanks

I would like a couple hat-tips to Sean Corfield for mentioning Wheels in his blog entry about Hal Helms leaving CFML.

And to ColdFusion Open-Source Update by Brian Rinaldi who regularly mentions Wheels along with all sorts of other CF Open Source news.

Finally, Thanks to Ben Forta, yes Mr. ColdFusion himself. He mentions Wheels 1.0 Release.

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Wheels Is Hanging with the Big Boys Just Fine

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:22:00 -0800

Well, my first blog post for Wheels. I am Mike Henke. I fell in love with Wheels after I asked my friend Ryan Stille what ColdFusion framework he thought looked interesting and would like to learn. I always wanted to implement a CF framework at work, but business constraints (time, complexity, learning curve, priority) never worked until I found Wheels.

In this entry, I will be providing some surprising and interesting stats showing how Wheels has grown over the past couple years. Here are a couple to start with: CFWheels.org had a spike of over 500 unique visitors and 42 downloads in one day last month.

Traffic from past couple years (Google Analytics)

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Wheels 1.0: We're Production Ready

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:40:00 -0800

We've gone 1.0! Go download ColdFusion on Wheels 1.0 and give it a try. If you're upgrading from a previous version, please review the instructions for Upgrading to 1.0 (even if you're upgrading from the release candidate).

It's an honor for me to announce this release and to thank our passionate community. The core team and community have put a ton of hard work into this project since I started contributing in November of 2007. Per Djurner has truly done some hero work. Everyone owes him a beer.

Even though Sean Corfield claims that Wheels doesn't have much traction, we have been overwhelmed by the positive feedback of the framework. I expect more to come. It's been picking up.

I'm going to risk forgetting to thank someone who has helped. I'm sorry if I missed you. Thanks so much to Rob Cameron (The Godfather), Per Djurner, Tony Petruzzi, Peter Amiri, Raul Riera, James Gibson, Mike Henke, Clarke Bishop, Russ Johnson, Grant Copley, Isaac Dealey, Tom Hoen, Andy Bellenie, Milo Maneo, Louis Plante, Joshua Clingenpeel, William Fisk, and Mike Haggerty for contributing to the project in meaningful ways. (Hey, I've always wanted to release a CD with a "Thank You" section, so this will have to do. :))

Here's to a framework with a very bright future and a major contribution to the CFML community at large.

Wheels API Documentation Available

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:35:00 -0800

The documentation now contains a section that documents all public functions in the Wheels API. You can now browse an complete list of the functions or browse by category.

It feels good to remove the apology for incomplete documentation from the documentation section!

As with almost everything else on the site, there is a lot more that we want to do with this new API documentation. Let us know in the Google Group if you have any ideas. Some future plans are as follows:

Comments section
Associate functions with other related functions and related chapters in the reference guide
Search

If you're interested in how we implemented this, visit my blog post where I briefly describe the general idea.

Wheels Presentation at MDCFUG Tonight

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:00:00 -0800

Mike Henke presented about Wheels tonight at the Maryland ColdFusion User's Group. He gave an overview of how Wheels and MVC frameworks work and demonstrated some code examples.

Here are the slides. You can also view a full screen version with speaker's notes.

Thanks Mike for your efforts to get the word out there!

The Release Candidate Is Out: Wheels 1.0 RC1

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:19:00 -0800

We've been talking about getting to 1.0 for quite some time now, and the first release candidate is here.

Download ColdFusion on Wheels 1.0 RC1

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Screencasts Are Back

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:18:00 -0800

This blog has been a little quiet lately, but believe me that plenty has been going on behind the scenes.

We've released a new section on our site for Screencasts. I've started a series on building a fake social networking site, and the first 2 episodes are there:

The aim of the series is to go through a real world application and cover different topics as they are appropriate.

There are plenty more episodes and standalone screencasts in the works, so be sure to subscribe via RSS or iTunes.